Kurt Wendt is a representative of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) at the international meetings to prepare for the next European Social Forum, to be held in Paris over November 12-16. At the last assembly meeting in Genoa (July 19-20), he criticised the left for being less united than the bourgeois and social democratic parties. Common conditions require common organisation. Tina Becker spoke to him

At the 'Brent convention of the left' on July 31, Socialist Workers Party activist and secretary of the Brent local government branch of Unison, Brian Butterworth, received overwhelming backing as Socialist Alliance prospective parliamentary candidate in the forthcoming by-election in the north-west London constituency of Brent East. Polling day is not expected before late September